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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (12 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Idk, just licking it once shouldn't do much harm, right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

There is no identified threshold or safe level of lead in blood” [AAP 2016]

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/leadtoxicity/physiological_effects.html

I'd call that "you really shouldn't" for an adult, and for a baby I'd tell them to "please reconsider" for sure

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I have a toddler and I hope to dear god there's no lead about. She will lick anything.

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